Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Add Two-Factor authentication to your Laravel application

Dec 3rd 2014

Authy makes it easy to integrate two-factor authentication into your existing Laravel application. It's user-end implementation is versitile, offering support for both smart-phones and standard phones. Furthermore, implmentation with its API is easy and seamless. Finally, its analytics and data tracking can you provide insights into your users and how they interact with your application's authentication system.
This tutorial assumes that you have an Authy developer account (which can be created here ), an application (either testing or production), and your application's API key.

http://blog.enge.me/post/installing-two-factor-authentication-with-authy

HTTPS Everywhere

Dec 3rd 2014

When creating a new website you should always use HTTPS. Here's a video recorded at Google I/O earlier this year on the why and how.

The New York Times switched to HTTPS last month. Here are their reasons for doing so:

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com//2014/11/13/embracing-https/

Reveal.js

Dec 3rd 2014

A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML.

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js

Quaternion Monkeys

Dec 2nd 2014

An interactive webVR version of a 4D monkey sculpture.

http://vihart.github.io/webVR-playing-with/monkeys

Paw

Dec 2nd 2014

Paw is a very nice rest client for Mac. Comes highly recommended.

https://luckymarmot.com/paw

Perfmap

Dec 2nd 2014

Perfmap consists of a bookmarklet and Chrome extension to create a front-end performance heatmap of resources loaded in the browser using the Resource Timing API.

https://github.com/zeman/perfmap

PHP 7 moves full speed ahead

Dec 2nd 2014

Spoiler: it's all about performance. Coming to a host near you in 2015.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2841561/php/php-7-moves-full-speed-ahead.html

Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP

Dec 2nd 2014

An excellent read for if you're dealing with a large legacy code base that mainly consists of spaghetti.

https://leanpub.com/mlaphp

How instagram.com works

Dec 2nd 2014

Trucker

Dec 2nd 2014

A PHP package for mapping remote API resources (usually RESTful) as models in an ActiveResource style.

https://github.com/indatus/trucker

Best Practices for Using the Vary Header

Dec 2nd 2014

Vary is one of the most powerful HTTP response headers. Used correctly, it can do wonderful things. Unfortunately, this header is frequently used incorrectly, which can lead to abysmal hit ratios. Worse still, if it's not used when it should be, the wrong content could be delivered.

http://www.fastly.com/blog/best-practices-for-using-the-vary-header/

Digging in to Laravel's IoC Container

Dec 2nd 2014

Inversion of Control, or IoC, is a technique that allows control to be inverted when compared to classical procedural code. The most prominent form of IoC is, of course, Dependency Injection, or DI. Laravel's IoC container is one of the most used Laravel features, yet is probably the least understood.

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/digging-in-to-laravels-ioc-container--cms-22167

“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure

Dec 1st 2014

99.9% of websites on the Internet will only let you create one account for each email address. So if you want to see if an email address has an account, try signing up for a new account with the same email address.

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/invalid-username-or-password-useless/

DDD Ultra-Lite

Nov 30th 2014

I believe that the true value of what Eric Evans wrote years ago lies in the fact that virtually anybody can use some of the things he proposed. They don’t require any special tools, money, approval or reorganization. Those are simple things that you can start doing from next Monday (or tomorrow).

http://weronikalabaj.com/ddd-ultra-lite/

Mousetrap

Nov 30th 2014

Mousetrap is a simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in Javascript.

https://github.com/ccampbell/mousetrap

How to use the grep command in linux

Nov 28th 2014

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-grep-command-in-linux-unix/

Why is the Zend Framework not popular

Nov 27th 2014

The question gets answered by Bill Karwin, the project lead of the 1.0 release.

http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Zend-Framework-not-popular/answers/8173410

A Board Game That Teaches Four-Year-Olds How To Code

Nov 24th 2014

The goal of the game is for kids to maneuver their turtle across the board, avoiding obstacles and other players, in order to rendezvous with a jewel. But instead of rolling a dice and letting fate decide, they use a set of cards that serve as basic programming instructions, telling the turtle where to move and when to turn.

http://toyland.gizmodo.com/a-board-game-that-teaches-four-year-olds-how-to-code-1656478026